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user-inactivated  ·  1724 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Labor Econ Versus the World  ·  

    But then, I've been having online debates since before you were born. My first "internet" experience was using an acoustic coupler to dial into the University of Colorado to play a MUD on a terminal whose only output was a daisywheel printer. I missed being OG "eternal September" by a year. And what I've noticed over the past ten years (but not the past twenty, and not the past 25) is the retreat of anyone over 30. It didn't used to be this way. It started when GenZ hit college.

    So those of us who remember? Those of us who know? We're left with a choice - figure out how to tell you that you're wrong in such a way that your feelings aren't hurt... or find something better to do.

Thank you for putting into words what I have been going through personally in regards to the internet over the last at least 5-6 years. Funny, now that you mention it, where are all the old farts on the internet? Where did they go? How is it that a whole class of people can just stop interacting and nobody noticed? Suddenly, I don't feel like the grumpy old codger of an asshole I have been dealing with as I walk away from the toxic swirling drain of garbage that is the Internet. Nothing in the online space is really worth the bullshit any more and I have better stuff to do that is actually worth spending my time on.

Your words have helped me and for that I will be eternally grateful. Be well.

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user-inactivated  ·  2029 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Here is the reason the Republicans are pushing for Kavanaugh to get on the court

You don't have to be a lawyer to be a judge.

user-inactivated  ·  2030 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 298th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

user-inactivated  ·  2032 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100

This headline makes me happy I'll be dead in ten years.

user-inactivated  ·  2042 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 19, 2018

    It's probably Carhartt and Patagonia from here on out.

And will outlast everything in the Kohl's but at least a decade.

user-inactivated  ·  2042 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: FiveThirtyEight: How Will the Troubled Kavanaugh Nomination Affect the Midterms?

First poll out with Beto beating Zodiac WARNING AUTOPLAY

A Dem winning a state-wide race in Texas is a shock to the system that gives me a bit of hope.

user-inactivated  ·  2042 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Connected Is Your Community to Everywhere Else in America?

It is interesting to pick a small county in BanjoStan and see where the kids fled to. Even still, I was interested to see that most people stay in the same state.

yep PDF warning, but a facinating read.

Climate change is impacting shareholders which means we have to acknowledge its impacts now.

user-inactivated  ·  2044 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Democrats have a shot at taking the Senate

CNN Polls: Democrats hold the upper hand in Arizona, Tennessee Senate races Fucking autoplay video warning. This shit is better than Porn.

user-inactivated  ·  2047 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Just Joined the Site

Wednesday is Pubski day where there tends to be a long thread with more engagement. Start there to learn the community. If you see something interesting, jump in.

user-inactivated  ·  2061 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Much Trouble Is Ted Cruz Really In?

I'd touch myself if the Trump rally on October tanks him. I'd do a happy dance at least. Cruz hates Trump and now is counting on Cheeto to save his ass.

Glorious.

user-inactivated  ·  2061 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ten Bands Taking Black Metal to Outer Space

Glad to see Mare Cognitum is on there.

user-inactivated  ·  2063 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 293rd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

40 years ago Today this was released.

user-inactivated  ·  2063 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Here's 48 minutes of gameplay of Cyberpunk 2077 (NSFW)

This has me all kinds of excited in ways I have not been in years for a video game.

user-inactivated  ·  2066 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 293rd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

user-inactivated  ·  2068 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Helen Dale: My Unpopular Opinion: There Are Too Many Mediocre Artists

This article skips around the real truth of the matter... There are too many college students.

user-inactivated  ·  2071 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Beating King of Pop, The Eagles have No. 1 album of all-time

user-inactivated  ·  2072 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New York City has more skyscrapers than these countries

Sorry for the snark, but glad I can help? lol.

user-inactivated  ·  2072 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tesla pares losses in volatile trading after falling below $300

He's working 200 hours a week and his personal life is unraveling into a divorce and who the hell knows what else. The guy needs to go to Switzerland, sit on a mountain off of all human interactions and just vegetate for a week to recharge or he's gonna lose at least one of his companies.

user-inactivated  ·  2073 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views

Buying fake dislikes is a thing as well. One of the channels I watch ran into the problem debunking garbage Kickstarters.

user-inactivated  ·  2073 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New York City has more skyscrapers than these countries

    But some of New York City's glory has faded since the late 20th century. It lost the mantle of having the tallest building in the world when Chicago built Sears Tower (442.1 meters / 1,450 feet) in 1874, and New York City hasn't reclaimed it since and won't likely anytime soon.

1874... Does anyone edit their shit any more?

user-inactivated  ·  2077 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Valve seems to be working on tools to get Windows games running on Linux

Valve is pissed off at Microsoft. This can only be a good thing in the long term.

https://www.techradar.com/news/valve-insists-theres-still-life-in-steam-machines-and-linux-gaming

user-inactivated  ·  2079 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Random Quotes of the Week (Aug12-19 2018)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/13/retail-sales-in-2018-could-climb-higher-than-previously-forecast-nrf.html

Which means increases in personal debt. Which means we are right back to 2007, don't it?

user-inactivated  ·  2079 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 291st Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Sabaton has a music pack for Europa Universalis. So lots and lots of Swedish Metal \m/

user-inactivated  ·  2082 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Random quotes of the week

This is starting to give me a Skyscraper Index vibe. Stocks are shit, bonds are flat, where else are you going to dump money?